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 2011-11-24 - Report shows Parks Canada’s significant contribution to Canadian economy
2011-11-10 - Parks Canada launches “Canada’s Coolest School Trip Contest”

2011-11-09 - Harper government begins consultations on Canada’s first national urban park
2011-11-03 - Minister Kent Honoured to Receive Royal Canadian Geographical Society’s Gold Medal

The Honourable Peter Kent, Canada's Environment Minister and Minister responsible for Parks Canada, congratulates the Honourable Darrell Dexter 2011-10-17 - Canada and Nova Scotia Reach Historic Agreement to designate Sable Island as a National Park Reserve
Minister Kent (right), visits the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden with Alice Wong (centre), BC Minister of State for Seniors and Kathie Gible 2011-10-13 - Harper Government Recognizes Vancouver’s Chinatown as National Historical Site of Canada

Minister Peter Kent (centre), presents the proposed boundary for consultation for the Southern Strait of Georgia National Marine Conservation Area Reserve 2011-10-13 - Canada and British Columbia Announce Proposed Boundary for Consultation for the Southern Strait of Georgia National Marine Conservation Area Reserve
Minister Peter Kent 2011-10-12 - Harper Government Launches the Commemoration of The 200th Anniversary of the War of 1812

Royal Canadian Mint celebrates nature 2011-10-07 - Royal Canadian Mint celebrates nature and Canada’s great outdoors with new circulation coins commemorating the centennial of Parks Canada, the Boreal Forest and three new animal themes
Ottawa, Ontario, September 1, 2011 -- The Honourable Peter Kent, Minister of Environment and Minister responsible for Parks Canada, today updated media on this summer’s two-phased Arctic archaeological surveys associated with the 19th-century pursuit of the Northwest Passage: the continuing search for Franklin’s HMS Erebus and HMS Terror and the closer examination of HMS Investigator and related land sites. 2011-09-01 - Government of Canada gives update on archaeological expeditions related to Franklin ships and HMS Investigator

Harper Government restores birthplace of Confederation 2011-08-15 - Harper Government restores birthplace of Confederation
Government of Canada continues Franklin search expedition in Canada’s Arctic 2011-06-30 - Government of Canada continues Franklin search expedition in Canada’s Arctic

Centennial celebration 2011-05-19 - Parks Canada celebrates 100 years of world-class conservation and further protects historic grasslands
The Honourable Peter Kent, Canada’s Environment Minister and Minister responsible for Parks Canada, presents to the Canadian people, Parka, the new Parks Canada mascot, designed to commemorate the creation of the world's first national parks service, in Ottawa, Ontario, May 17, 2011 2011-05-17 - Minister Kent presents Parka, the new Parks Canada mascot, to the Canadian people

The Honourable Peter Kent, Minister of the Environment and Minister responsible for Parks Canada (left), meets the media in the company of Alan Latourelle, Parks Canada CEO, at the CN Tower in Toronto, Friday, May 6 2011-05-06 - Harper Government connecting young Canadians to Canada’s nature and history Grade 8 students to once again receive free passes to Canada’s beloved places
Marina Dessiatkina, Trade Commissioner for the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russia (left), and Leon Benoit, MP for Vegreville-Wainwright, shake hands following an announcement that 30 young Wood bison will be flown to Russia, at Elk Island National Park, Alberta, Wednesday March 16, 2011. 2011-03-16 - Elk Island National Park Wood Bison Ready for Trip to Sakha Republic, Russia

The Honourable Peter Kent, Canada’s Environment Minister and Minister responsible for Parks Canada (left), presents the Garden Tourism Achievement Award to Parks Canada in company of Andrew Campbell, Director General, External Relations and Visitor Experience, Parks Canada (centre) and Victor Santacruz, Executive Director, Canadian Nursery Landscape Association (CNLA), at Canada Blooms, in Toronto, Ontario, Tuesday, March 15, 2011. 2011-03-15 - Garden Tourism Achievement Award
Le gouvernement du Canada reconnaît l’importance historique nationale de la fondation du Congrès juif canadien 2011-03-14 - Founding of the Jewish Congress commemorated

The Honourable Peter Kent, Canada's Environment Minister and Minister responsible for Parks Canada addresses the members or the Travel Media Association of Canada during their annual conference 2011-03-11 - Travel Media Association of Canada annual conference
Leon Benoit (right), MP for Vegreville-Wainwright, speaks with Vladimir Gregoriev (left), Minister of Nature Protection, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russia, and Vladimir Vasiliev (centre), President, Northern Forum Academy, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russia, 2011-02-13 - Government of Canada to Send Wood Bison to Russian Conservation Project

2011-02-04 - Minister Peter Kent and Darrell Fox announce the finalists of the “What Terry Fox means to me” youth challenge
Minister Kent and Marie Lemay, Chief Executive Officer, National Capital Commission (NCC), kick off Winterlude 2011 2011-02-03 - Parks Canada Centennial Takes the Stage at Winterlude
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